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On February 14, 2019, NASA hosted an Industry Forum at NASA HQ to provide an overview of the Human Landing System (HLS) BAA. [ 13 ] In April 2019 NASA announced a formal request for proposals for Appendix H of NextSTEP-2 allowing American companies to submit bids for the design and development of the Ascent Element of the Human Landing System ...
Date and time Rocket Flight number Launch site LSP; Payload (⚀ = CubeSat) Operator Orbit Function Decay (UTC) Outcome Remarks Q3 2034 [2] TBA: TBA: TBA: Sentinel-3 NG OPT A ESA: Low Earth Earth observation Sentinel-3 Next Generation Optical satellite. H1 2035 [48] Ariane 6: Kourou ELA-4: Arianespace: MTG-S2 / Sentinel-4B: EUMETSAT: Geosynchronous
⚀ Ten-Koh 2 [23] Nihon University: Low Earth: Magnetosphere observation / Technology demonstration First HTV-X resupply mission. September (TBD) [24] [25] Kinetica 2: TBA: CAS Space: Qingzhou 1 CAS: Low Earth: Flight test Maiden launch of Kinetica 2. First launch of the Qingzhou spacecraft. September (TBD) [26] Long March 3B/E: Xichang LC-2 ...
Already more than a month late getting back, two NASA astronauts will remain at the International Space Station until engineers finish working on problems plaguing their Boeing capsule, officials ...
NASA signed contracts worth billions with both companies in order to have a backup in case one of them got sidelined by an accident. SpaceX launched its first crew in 2020; the upcoming flight ...
NASA went into its commercial crew program a decade ago wanting two competing U.S. companies ferrying astronauts in the post-shuttle era. Boeing won the bigger contract: more than $4 billion ...
NASA signed a separate contract with Northrop for the fabrication of the HALO, and for integration with the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE), being built by Maxar, for US$935 million. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] In mid 2024, the module reached significant completion and entered into the stress test phase in Thales Alenia 's facilities.
The need for NextGen became apparent during the summer of 2000 when air travel was impeded by severe congestion and costly delays. Two years later, the Commission on the Future of the U.S. Aerospace Industry recommended that a multiagency task force develop an integrated plan to transform the U.S. air transportation system.